Genesis 3–11
contains promises that unfold throughout Scripture. See God's plan
for marriage, His relationship with His people, His judgment of the
wicked, and His salvation of the righteous. (Not dependent on
Genesis Part 1.)
10 weeks, 10 lessons

Learn principles
and truths from the life of Abraham that will challenge you in your
walk, and give you hope in your future. In the life of Abraham, we
see God's choosing and the further unfolding of His redemptive plan.
We learn more about God's character and His relationship with us in
Abraham's example. Learn how man becomes righteous, how God keeps
His promises, and how God protects those who are His.
6 weeks, 6 lessons (covers Genesis 12–25)

God renews the covenant promise to Abraham through the patriarchs
Isaac and Jacob. Their lives become an integral part of the scarlet
thread of redemption that God weaves through all of Scripture and
the source of comfort for us. But two nations arise from Isaac,
descendants of Jacob and Esau. Their struggle continues the story of
God's choice. The lessons we learn for our lives from these men and
their relationship to God can guide our steps of faith.
4 weeks, 4 lessons (covers Genesis 24–36)

Have you ever been falsely accused? Or maybe you have suffered
unjustly for something you had no control over. The life of Joseph
is a study on handling extreme situations. What would you be like if
you were the ruler of the world? How would you act if you were
literally a slave? Joseph had to deal with a life of ups and downs,
and his God taught him how to handle them all.
4 weeks, 4 lessons (covers Genesis 37–50) See page 116 for
chapter themes 1-36

My comments on
Clarke's commentary - "Clarke (1760-1832) was
Methodist, Wesleyan,
Arminian, (e.g.,
Clarke "suggested that although God can know all future events,
He
chooses not to know some events beforehand" Baker Encyclopedia of
the Bible, page 808). He did not always interpret Scripture
literally
and so was amillennial (to quote Clarke on 1000 years - "I am
satisfied that this period should not be taken literally" [see
comment on Rev 20:4]
- he
interpreted Revelation as a
Historicist) which led him to
interpret the church as fulfilling many OT promises to Israel.
He was influential in development of doctrine of Entire Sanctification (or
"Christian perfection").
Clarke did affirm the authority and sufficiency of Scripture, but held a
belief of "plenary dynamic inspiration" (idea of every
thought inspired), thus falling short of "plenary verbal
inspiration" (every single word inspired) (Bib. Sacra: Vol 125, p
163, 1968). In summary, a useful, respected commentary but as with
all extra-Biblical resources you are advised to "Be a Berean!" Acts
17:11

C H Spurgeon
adds that "Adam Clarke is the great annotator of our Wesleyan
friends; and they have no reason to be ashamed of him, for he
takes rank among the chief of expositors. His mind was evidently
fascinated by the singularities of learning, and hence his
commentary is rather too much of an old curiosity shop, but it
is filled with valuable rarities, such as none but a great man
could have collected. Like Gill,
he is one-sided, only in the opposite direction to our friend
the Baptist. The use of the two authors may help to preserve the
balance of your judgments. If you consider Clarke wanting in
unction, do not read him for savor but for criticism, and then
you will not be disappointed. The author thought that lengthy
reflections were rather for the preacher than the commentator,
and hence it was not a part of his plan to write such
observations as those which endear Matthew Henry to the million.
If you have a copy of Adam Clarke, and exercise discretion in
reading it, you will derive immense advantage from it, for
frequently by a sort of side-light he brings out the meaning of
the text in an astonishingly novel manner. I do not wonder that
Adam Clarke still stands, notwithstanding his peculiarities, a
prince among commentators. I do not find him so helpful as Gill,
but still, from his side of the question, with which I have
personally no sympathy, he is an important writer, and deserves
to be studied by every reader of the Scriptures. He very
judiciously says of Dr. Gill, “He was a very learned and good
man, but has often lost sight of his better judgment in
spiritualizing the text;” this is the very verdict which we pass
upon himself, only altering the last sentence a word or two; “He
has often lost sight of his better judgment in following learned
singularities;” the monkey, instead of the serpent, tempting
Eve, is a notable instance."
(Spurgeon,
C. H. Lectures to my Students, Vol. 4: Commenting and Commentaries;
Lectures Addressed to the students of the Pastors' College,
Metropolitan Tabernacle)

James
Rosscup writes that "This is a helpful old set of 1863 for laypeople
and pastors to have because it usually comments at least to some
degree on problems. Though terse, it provides something good on
almost any passage, phrase by phrase and is to some degree
critical in nature. It is evangelical....Especially in its
multi-volume form this is one of the old evangelical works that
offers fairly solid though brief help on many verses" (Commentaries
for Biblical Expositors: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works
or Logos)

James Rosscup writes that "This dispensationally oriented work is
not verse-by-verse, but deals with the exposition on a broader scale,
treating blocks of thought within the chapters. Cf. also Arno C.
Gaebelein, Gaebelein’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible (I
Volume, Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux, 1985), the Annotated Bible revised. The
author was a popular evangelical Bible teacher of the first part of
the century, much like H. A. Ironside in his diligent but broad,
practical expositions of Bible books. Gaebelein was premillennial and
dispensational, and editor for many years of Our Hope Magazine."
(Commentaries
for Biblical Expositors: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works
or Logos)

C
H Spurgeon -- "Beyond all controversy, John Gill was one of the most
able Hebraists of his day, and in
other matters no mean proficient...His great work on the Holy
Scriptures is greatly prized at the present day by the best
authorities, which is conclusive evidence of its value, since the set
of the current of theological thought is quite contrary to that of Dr.
Gill. No one in these days is likely to be censured for his Arminianism, but most modern
divines affect to sneer at anything a little too highly Calvinistic (see
Calvinism): however, amid the decadence of his own
rigid system, and the disrepute of even more moderate Calvinism,
Gill’s laurels as an expositor are still green. His ultraism is
discarded, but his learning is respected: the world and the church
take leave to question his dogmatism, but they both bow before his
erudition. Probably no man since Gill’s days has at all equaled him in
the matter of Rabbinical learning. Say what you will about that
lore, it has its value: of course, a man has to rake among perfect
dunghills and dust-heaps, but there are a few jewels which the
world could not afford to miss. Gill was a master cinder-sifter among
the Targums, the Talmuds, the Mishnah, and the Gemara. Richly did he deserve the
degree of which he said, “I never bought it, nor thought it, nor
sought it.”

He was
always at work; it is difficult to say when he slept, for he wrote
10,000 folio pages of theology. The portrait of him which belongs to
this church, and hangs in my private vestry, and from which all the
published portraits have been engraved, represents him after an
interview with an Arminian gentleman, turning up his nose in a most
expressive manner, as if he could not endure even the smell of
free-will. In some such a vein he wrote his commentary. He hunts Arminianism
throughout the whole of it. He is far from being so interesting and
readable as Matthew Henry. He delivered his comments to his people
from Sabbath to Sabbath, hence their peculiar mannerism. His frequent
method of animadversion (a critical and usually censorious remark) is,
“This text does not mean this,” nobody ever thought it did; “It does
not mean that,” only two or three heretics ever imagined it did; and
again it does not mean a third thing, or a fourth, or a fifth, or a
sixth absurdity; but at last he thinks it does mean so-and-so, and
tells you so in a methodical, sermon-like manner. This is an easy
method, gentlemen, of filling up the time, if you are ever short of
heads for a sermon. Show your people firstly, secondly, and thirdly,
what the text does not mean, and then afterwards you can go back and
show them what it does mean. It may be thought, however, that one such
a teacher is enough, and that what was tolerated from a learned doctor
would be scouted in a student fresh from college. For good, sound,
massive, sober sense in commenting, who can excel Gill? Very seldom
does he allow himself to be run away with by imagination, except now
and then when he tries to open up a parable, and finds a meaning in
every circumstance and minute detail; or when he falls upon a text
which is not congenial with his creed, and hacks and hews terribly to
bring the word of God into a more systematic shape. Gill is the
Coryphaeus (the leader of the Greek chorus and thus the leader of any
movement) of Hyper-Calvinism, but if his
followers never went beyond their master, they would not go very far
astray." (Spurgeon,
C. H. Lectures to my Students, Vol. 4: Commenting and Commentaries;
Lectures Addressed to the students of the Pastors' College,
Metropolitan Tabernacle)

James Rosscup adds that "Gill (1697–1771), a pastor of England,
wrote these which are two-column pages, ca. 900–1,000 pages per
volume, Originally they were 9 volumes, folio. He also wrote Body of
Divinity, 3 volumes, and several other volumes. His commentary is
evangelical, wrestles with texts, is often wordy and not to the point
but with worthy things for the patient who follow the ponderous detail
and fish out slowly what his interpretation of a text is. He feels the
thousand years in Revelation 20 cannot begin until after the
conversion of the Jews and the bringing in of the fullness of the
Gentiles and destruction of all anti-Christian powers (volume 6, p.
1063) but in an amillennial sense of new heavens and new earth coming
right after Christ’s second advent (pp1064–65), and the literal
thousand years of binding at the same time. He feels the group that
gathers against the holy city at the end of the thousand years is the
resurrected wicked dead from the four quarters of the earth (i.e. from
all the earth, etc. (1067)." (Commentaries
for Biblical Expositors: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works
or Logos)

James Rosscup rates this as the #1 devotional commentary on
Genesis. Rosscup writes "the notes by W. H. Griffith-Thomas...will
be a warm devotional help...This work is good in tracing the argument
and showing connections between chapters. It is usually quite good
devotionally and gives suggestions for meditation at the ends of the
chapters. Applications are often usable. It is an excellent book to
put into the hands of a layman who is not ready to grapple with the
minutia of exegesis, but who is serious about his Bible study. It is
also good for the preacher and teacher. Since it is out of print,
readers must search in other places for it."

C
H Spurgeon writes that The Pictorial Bible is "A work
of art as well as learning" adding that if one "cannot
visit the Holy Land, it is well for you that there is a work
like the Pictorial Bible, in which the notes of the most
observant travelers are arranged under the texts which they
illustrate. For the geography, zoology, botany, and manners and
customs of Palestine, this will be your counselor and guide." (Spurgeon,
C. H. Lectures to my Students, Vol. 4: Commenting and Commentaries;
Lectures Addressed to the students of the Pastors' College,
Metropolitan Tabernacle)
This resource is in one sense somewhat antiquated, but in
another sense is timeless with well numerous done illustrations
that make the text spring off the page when you read words like
"balm
of Gilead (pix)". It's pages beckon the reader to
tarry a moment and peruse the interesting comments on subjects
that might otherwise be quite foreign to readers of a western
culture and mindset.

Mackintosh, a Plymouth
Brethren, was a gifted teacher and writer. D L Moody said that "it
was C. H. Mackintosh who had the greatest influence" upon his
learning of the Word of God. One of his most respected works was
Notes on the Pentateuch.
Further biographical Note
- Another format - Genesis 1-15
;
Genesis 16-50

James
Rosscup has a relevant note on Mackintosh's work on the Pentateuch
writing that "This
is a one-volume edition of an old evangelical devotional work (Genesis
to Deuteronomy, Notes on the Pentateuch). It has
some value at times, especially for lay readers, yet is not to the
point as much with pertinent material as W. H. Griffith-Thomas on the
Pentateuch (also old) and John Sailhamer’s recent introductory survey." (Commentaries
for Biblical Expositors: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works
or Logos)

James
Rosscup writes that "This evangelical work is both homiletical
and expository and is often very good homiletically but weaker
otherwise. Helpful in discussing Bible characters, it is weak in
prophecy at times because of allegorization. It is not really as
valuable today as many other sets for the serious Bible student.
The expositions are in the form of sermons.." (Commentaries
for Biblical Expositors: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works
or Logos)

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Warren Wiersbe one of the more esteemed modern evangelical
commentators writes: If you can locate the six-volume edition of the
Expositor’s Bible, buy it immediately! It takes up less space than the
original fifty-volume set, and not everything in the original set is
worth owning.

Cyril J. Barber - This set, originally published in 1903, contains
expositions by both conservative and liberal theologians. The most
important works are by Dod (Genesis), Chadwick (Exodus and Mark),
Kellogg (Leviticus), Blaikie (Joshua, I and II Samuel), Adeney (Ezra,
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Genesis - Article
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The Book of Genesis -
Commentary
"The Book of
Genesis and Part of the Book of Exodus is a thorough and excellent
commentary on the first book of Moses, and the first twenty-five
chapters of Exodus. A verse-by-verse examination of the Scripture,
this volume by one of the 19th century’s best theologians is
illuminating and comprehensive in its erudition of history, language,
translation, and interpretation of Genesis and Exodus." (Logos.com)

Genesis - Commentary
(1854)
"This solid,
fifty-chapter anthology of Cumming’s sermons on the book of Genesis
provides an in-depth look into the first book of Moses, colored with
Cumming’s astute commentary and perceptive insight." (Logos.com)

The Book of Genesis with introduction and notes
Rosscup
notes that "Driver was a careful scholar and aids the expositor in
understanding the meanings of difficult phrases...(in his critique of
Driver on Exodus Rosscup adds that he has) helpful comments on matters
of historical background and word meanings. It helps on problems,
though Driver was liberal." (Ibid)

Genesis Commentary in the Lange SeriesRosscup notes that "The treatments of books within this
evangelical set vary in importance. Generally, one finds a wealth of
detailed commentary, background, and some critical and exegetical
notes. Often, however, there is much excess verbiage that does not
help particularly. On the other hand, it usually has something to
assist the expositor on problems and is a good general set for pastors
and serious lay people though it is old." (Ibid)

James
Rosscup writes that "Morgan was an evangelical master at
surveying a book and giving its message within a brief compass. He
introduces each book with a chart giving an analysis and synthesis.
Revell put it out in a one-volume form in 1959..., and it is adequate
to have the one-volume work, since Morgan is broad in his treatment
anyway." (Commentaries
for Biblical Expositors: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works
or Logos)

As an
aside G Campbell Morgan would read the book from which he
planned to preach as many as 40 times till its related parts became
clear in sections and paragraphs! Little wonder he was able to
honestly entitle his work "The Analyzed Bible"!

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